DAY 14 – MOTHER OF OUR SAVIOR, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE GIFT OF PIETY!
Dara’s Corner
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How to celebrate
Aug 28th
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Start your day by
enjoying a cherry turnover for breakfast, celebrating National Cherry Turnover
Day. As you savor each bite, sip on a glass of red wine to commemorate National
Red Wine Day. Embrace the playful spirit of the day by dressing up in a bow tie,
honoring National Bow Tie Day.
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After breakfast, get
creative by participating in Crackers Over The Keyboard Day. Playfully place
crackers over your keyboard and take some fun photos to share with friends.
Take a moment to remember beloved pets who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge on
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day.
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During your day, tune
into radio commercials and appreciate the creativity behind them on Radio
Commercials Day. Let the jingles and slogans bring a smile to your face. As you
navigate through your computer, have some fun on Race Your Mouse Around The Icons
Day. Challenge yourself to navigate your screen quickly and efficiently.
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End your day with a
lighthearted and unconventional celebration, incorporating the themes of these
unique holidays. Enjoy the simple pleasures each holiday offers, from indulging
in cherry turnovers and red wine to embracing the quirkiness of Crackers Over
The Keyboard Day. Let the spirit of fun and creativity guide you through this
whimsical day of festivities.
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Today is also Jack
Black’s birthday.
· 30 DAY TRIBUTE TO MARY 14th ROSE:
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Days of Women and Herbs – Frauendreissiger
MEDICINAL PLANTS
Day 14 DETOXIFICATION-Revealed by Heaven to Luz De María
Beloved, as
a Mother who sees beyond what you see, I ask you to eat the
blackberry/mulberry.
It is a natural blood purifier, and this will help the organism become more resistant
to the maladies that humanity will suffer. You ignore that a great part of the
virus and bacteria that plague you, have been created by man himself as a
result of the power over all humanity.” Blessed Virgin Mary, 10.13.2014
Scientific
name: Rubus ulmifolius Family: Rosaceae Known as: blackberry or
Mulberry BLACK
BERRY Contains natural antioxidants. Contains vitamins A, C and E and minerals such
as zinc and manganese that benefit immune system, reinforcing defenses. Provides
dietary fiber, that facilitates intestinal transit.
AUGUST 28 Wednesday-Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor
Proverbs, Chapter 15, Verse 33
The FEAR of the LORD is training for wisdom, and humility goes before
honors.
To become wise, one must
hear and integrate perspectives contrary to one’s own, which means accepting
“reproof.” Wisdom does not isolate one but places one in the company of the
wise.[1]
When we have failed to live up to the vision of God for us let us remember that
to be truly wise and loving and have a true fear of the Lord our return to
honor requires us to 1) say I am sorry; 2) acknowledge that it is our fault-no
excuses and most importantly 3) to take actions to correct the fault or make
things right-Lord help me to make the
things I have done poorly right!
Feast
of St. Augustine of Hippo[2]
St. Augustine (354-430) was born at Tagaste, Africa, and died in Hippo. His father, Patricius, was a pagan, his mother, Monica, a devout Christian. He received a good Christian education. As a law student in Carthage, however, he gave himself to all kinds of excesses and finally joined the Manichean sect. He then taught rhetoric at Milan where he was converted by St. Ambrose. Returning to Tagaste, he distributed his goods to the poor, and was ordained a priest. He was made bishop of Hippo at the age of 41 and became a great luminary of the African Church, one of the four great founders of religious orders, and a Doctor of the universal Church.
"Though I am but dust and ashes, suffer
me to utter my plea to Thy mercy; suffer me to speak, since it is to God's
mercy that I speak and not to man's scorn. From Thee too I might have scorn,
but Thou wilt return and have compassion on me. ... I only know that the gifts
Thy mercy had provided sustained me from the first moment. ... All my hope is
naught save in Thy great mercy. Grant what Thou dost command, and command what
Thou wilt" (St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions,
6, 19).
As a young man, Augustine prepared for
a career as a teacher of Rhetoric and subsequently taught in Carthage and Rome.
Unfortunately, despite having a saint for a mother, as his career progressed,
he wandered far from his Christian upbringing, and his life sank into an abyss
of pride and lust. Like many young pagan men of his time, he lived with a
mistress and conceived a child with her out of wedlock. However, the Lord did
not want to lose hold of this lost sheep altogether: thus, inspired by the
writings of the Roman philosopher Cicero (and, no doubt, prompted by the Holy
Spirit), Augustine began what would prove to be a lifelong search for wisdom.
This search took him first to the religious cult called the
"Manichees," a strange sect that believed the material world is the
product of the powers of "darkness," while the spiritual realm is the
realm of "light." After becoming disillusioned with the bizarre
theories of the Manichees, Augustine adopted the philosophy of the Neo-Platonists.
This was a school of philosophy centered on the writings of the ancient
philosopher Plotinus, who described the mystical journey that all people ought
to undertake as "the flight of the alone to the Alone," in other
words, as a mystical, solitary search for the ineffable Source of all things.
In 386, Augustine moved to Milan to a new teaching post, and there, by divine
providence, he encountered the preaching of the archbishop of the city, the
great theologian St. Ambrose. As a result of the example and preaching of this
great saint, as well as the prayers and tears of his saintly mother, Augustine
was quickly plunged into a profound inner struggle, wrestling with his sins of
the flesh and with temptations to intellectual pride. The turning point of this
struggle came in the summer of 386 when Augustine was sitting in a garden,
recollecting his past life and gazing into the depths of his own soul. He
describes what happened next in his autobiographical Confessions
(written in 397)[3]:
Such things I said, weeping in the most
bitter sorrow of my heart. And suddenly, I heard a voice from some nearby
house, a boy's voice or a girl's voice, I do not know but it was a sort of
sing-song repeated again and again, "Take and read, take and read." I
ceased weeping and immediately began to search my mind most carefully as to
whether children were accustomed to chant these words in any kind of game, and
I could not remember that I had ever heard any such thing. Damming back the
flood of my tears I arose, interpreting the incident as quite certainly a
divine command to open my book of Scripture and read the passage at which I
should open. ... I snatched it up, opened it, and in silence read the passage
upon which my eyes first fell: "Not
in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention
and envy, but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the
flesh in its concupiscence’s" (Rom 13:13). I had no wish to read
further, and no need. For in that instant, with the very ending of the
sentence, it was as though a light of utter confidence shone in my heart, and
all the darkness of uncertainty vanished away.
Then we [Augustine and his friend Alypius] went in to my mother and told her,
to her great joy. We related how it had come about: she was filled with
triumphant exultation and praised You who are mighty beyond what we ask or
conceive: for she saw that You had given her more than with all her pitiful
weeping she had ever asked. For You converted me to Yourself ... (Confessions, 8.11-12).
A prayer by St. Augustine
Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that
my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That I
love but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to
defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That
I always may be holy. Amen.[4]
Things to Do:
- Read
more about St. Augustine at CatholicIreland.net and at CatholicSaints.Info
- Go
here
for links to the writings of St. Augustine
- Also
learn more here, St. Augustine of Hippo
- See
St
Augustine, the Holy Trinity, the Child and the SeaShell
- Visit
Anastpaul for more info including many images
Catechism of the Catholic
Church
Day 75
The mysteries of Jesus' infancy
527 Jesus' circumcision, on the
eighth day after his birth, is the sign of his incorporation into
Abraham's descendants, into the people of the covenant. It is the sign of his
submission to the Law and his deputation to Israel's worship, in which he
will participate throughout his life. This sign prefigures that
"circumcision of Christ" which is Baptism.
528 The Epiphany is the
manifestation of Jesus as Messiah of Israel, Son of God and Saviour of the
world. the great feast of Epiphany celebrates the adoration of Jesus by the
wise men (magi) from the East, together with his baptism in the Jordan and the wedding
feast at Cana in Galilee. In the magi, representatives of the neighbouring
pagan religions, the Gospel sees the first-fruits of the nations, who welcome
the good news of salvation through the Incarnation. the magi's coming to
Jerusalem in order to pay homage to the king of the Jews shows that they seek
in Israel, in the messianic light of the star of David, the one who will be
king of the nations. Their coming means that pagans can discover Jesus and
worship him as Son of God and Saviour of the world only by turning towards the
Jews and receiving from them the messianic promise as contained in the Old
Testament. The Epiphany shows that "the full number of the
nations" now takes its "place in the family of the patriarchs",
and acquires Israelitica dignitas (is made "worthy of the heritage of
Israel").
529 The presentation of Jesus
in the temple shows him to be the firstborn Son who belongs to the
Lord. With Simeon and Anna, all Israel awaits its encounter with the
Saviour - the name given to this event in the Byzantine tradition. Jesus is
recognized as the long-expected Messiah, the "light to the nations"
and the "glory of Israel", but also "a sign that is spoken
against". the sword of sorrow predicted for Mary announces Christ's
perfect and unique oblation on the cross that will impart the salvation God had
"prepared in the presence of all peoples".
530 The flight into Egypt and
the massacre of the innocents make manifest the opposition of darkness to
the light: "He came to his own home, and his own people received him
not." Christ's whole life was lived under the sign of persecution.
His own share it with him. Jesus' departure from Egypt recalls the exodus
and presents him as the definitive liberator of God's people.
The mysteries of Jesus' hidden life
531 During the greater part of
his life Jesus shared the condition of the vast majority of human beings: a
daily life spent without evident greatness, a life of manual labour. His
religious life was that of a Jew obedient to the law of God, a life in the
community. From this whole period it is revealed to us that Jesus was
"obedient" to his parents and that he "increased in wisdom and
in stature, and in favour with God and man."
532 Jesus' obedience to his
mother and legal father fulfils the fourth commandment perfectly and was the
temporal image of his filial obedience to his Father in heaven. the everyday
obedience of Jesus to Joseph and Mary both announced and anticipated the
obedience of Holy Thursday: "Not my will. . ." The obedience of
Christ in the daily routine of his hidden life was already inaugurating his
work of restoring what the disobedience of Adam had destroyed.
533 The hidden life at Nazareth
allows everyone to enter into fellowship with Jesus by the most ordinary events
of daily life:
The home of
Nazareth is the school where we begin to understand the life of Jesus - the
school of the Gospel. First, then, a lesson of silence. May esteem for silence,
that admirable and indispensable condition of mind, revive in us. . . A lesson
on family life. May Nazareth teach us what family life is, its communion of
love, its austere and simple beauty, and its sacred and inviolable character...
A lesson of work. Nazareth, home of the "Carpenter's Son", in you I
would choose to understand and proclaim the severe and redeeming law of human
work. . . To conclude, I want to greet all the workers of the world, holding up
to them their great pattern their brother who is God.
534 The finding of Jesus in the
temple is the only event that breaks the silence of the Gospels about the
hidden years of Jesus. Here Jesus lets us catch a glimpse of the mystery
of his total consecration to a mission that flows from his divine sonship:
"Did you not know that I must be about my Father's work?" Mary
and Joseph did not understand these words, but they accepted them in faith.
Mary "kept all these things in her heart" during the years Jesus
remained hidden in the silence of an ordinary life.
Every Wednesday is Dedicated to St. Joseph
The Italian culture has
always had a close association with St. Joseph perhaps you could make
Wednesdays centered around Jesus’s Papa. Plan an Italian dinner of pizza or
spaghetti after attending Mass as most parishes have a Wednesday evening Mass.
You could even do carry out to help restaurants. If you are adventurous, you
could do the Universal Man Plan: St. Joseph style. Make the evening a family
night perhaps it could be a game night. Whatever you do make the day special.
·
Devotion to the 7 Joys and Sorrows of St.
Joseph
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Do the St.
Joseph Universal Man Plan.
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Total Consecration
to St. Joseph Day 10
Daily Devotions
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Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Binding
and suppressing the Devils Evil Works
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Religion
in the Home for Preschool: August
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Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
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Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
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Rosary
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